Slack adds AI to help users cope with chat overload

After nearly a year of testing, Salesforce-owned Slack has launched some generative AI features that may help enterprise users search, summarize, and ask questions about information in their conversations. For those overwhelmed by all the chatter on their Slack workspace, the IRC-ish app has added an ML-powered search bot that …

[ChoHag]

The problem with slack isn't that there's too much chatter, the chatter is the point. The problem with slack is everything else about slack.

[Anonymous Coward]

Slack is such an amazing product, that you now need AI to use it.

[Howard Sway]

you can ask the search bot for things like more information about a particular project

Or, if you're really daring, you could just ask somebody, instead of developing an infantilised dependency on chatbots to do everything for you.